Update: The recordings are up! No video this time, but audio and slides are available. Ben shared his experiences with the Basis watch, Mark talked about task accountability with BuddyHive, Richard discussed the challenges of getting your data out of devices, Eric suggested workshops, Niko explored celery salt water drinks, David compared planning and logging [...][Continue Reading...]

This is from Arthur Gron’s presentation at the January 23, 2013 meeting of Quantified Self Toronto. The transcript has been slightly edited for clarity. Measuring My Clothing – Arthur Gron from Quantified Self Toronto on Vimeo. Arthur: I’ve started measuring my clothing to get an idea of my body shape. The reason I did this [...][Continue Reading...]

If you’ve been tracking a lot of detailed data, you may want to analyze it by month so that you can see seasonal trends and smooth out daily variations. In your spreadsheet, calculate the date of the first day of the month for your data. Microsoft Excel: =DATE(YEAR(…), MONTH(…), 1) OpenOffice.org Calc: =DATE(YEAR(…); MONTH(…); 1) [...][Continue Reading...]

Marcia Nißen is studying Business Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is writing her bachelor’s thesis on self-tracking activities and motivation. Here’s her request! At the Institute of Informationsystems and Management (IISM) we are doing research on “Self-Tracking Activites and Motivations within the QS community” and at the moment we are conducting a [...][Continue Reading...]

Participants needed for research on the assessment of mood using smartphone data Are you 18 years or older? Do you own an Android smartphone? We are looking for volunteers to take part in an study exploring the potential for assessing an individual’s mood based on patterns in smartphone data regarding typical communication and movement behaviours. [...][Continue Reading...]

At the October meetup, Eric Boyd, Carlos Rizo, and Sacha Chua shared their summaries of interesting points from the Quantified Self Conference in Palo Alto, California last September. Myles Harrison also did a show-and-tell session covering what he learned from analyzing his text messages. After the meetup, we headed out to the Firkin on Yonge [...][Continue Reading...]